User:Meelar

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For your tireless acts of kindness (fastest welcome wagon in the West!), you are the first recipient of the Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar. Enjoy! You are truly the most deserving. Mike H

I, Gaff ^{talk bestow upon you the Random Acts of Kindness
Barnstar for going the extra mile to be nice, without being asked.}

		The Original Barnstar
		Awarded by Patricknoddy 20:53, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

I award you the Public Domain Astronaut, Patricknoddy 21:47, 14 February 2007 (UTC).

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[edit] About me

I started here in late November 2003, while searching Google for "campaign finance reform". I edited extensively, but took a long break from about late 2005 to the present, and have only recently began editing extensively again. Full disclosure: I am an admin, both here and on Meta (though that might have been by accident). I'm also semi-active as a member of the Welcoming Committee.

I'm a college student a recent college grad, originally from Chicago but now in Washington, D.C. I'm now pursuing just finished with a double major in political science and economics (bonus question: guess from the braglist which is the primary major!). I now work in politics, for a political polling firm. My main interests as far as Wikipedia goes are in politics, especially American, and a smattering of history, economics, and general U.S. culture. However, many of my edits are simply for NPOV or writing; I try to help structure, grammar and readability whenever I can. That said, a list of the articles I've made substantial changes to, or started fresh. If an article appears here, you can assume I'm watching it, so feel free to ask me any questions, comment on my editorial decisions, etc.

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[edit] What I've done

• The article on Clone High was started by me and made it onto the "Did you know?" section of the main page. I'm famous!
• Swing state, which is kind of my baby (though you're encouraged to edit), was favorably mentioned at Swing State Project, a blog.
• Swing state (again) was cited in a press release by the National Iranian American Council (read it at [1]).
• Jack Ryan (Senate candidate), started by me, made it into In the News
• United States Constitution, after I did a good deal of rewriting and polishing, became a featured article
• Barack Obama is featured as well. Many kudos to all who worked on it, esp. User:Gerald Farinas for finding the perfect images. The article was featured on the main page on August 18, 2004.
• I began List of U.S. House committees in January 2004 and wrote a few of the articles for it; in June of 2005, I nominated it for a position on Wikipedia:Featured lists. It was promoted, thanks to the cleaning of User:ALoan and the picture skills of User:NoSeptember. I also worked List of U.S. Senate committees up to featured list status.

Contract with America - Welfare reform - Campaign finance reform - Steel tariff - Jean Carnahan - school choice - SVEROK - Joe Hoeffel - Richard Armitage - Concerned Women for America - swing state - Andrew Manatos - 72 Hours: True Crime - College of Cardinals - English - Foil - Omnibus spending bill - George W. Bush - History of slavery in the United States - The Wind Done Gone - United Nations Convention Against Torture - realigning election - List of House Committees - U.S. House Committee on Appropriations - U.S. House Committee on Rules - Southern strategy - Mystic River (movie) - U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means - Editorial - Billy Dee Williams - Terry McAuliffe - slam dunk - The Almanac of American Politics - Kathleen Kennedy Townsend - William Griffith Wilson - The Beastmaster - College Democrats - U.S. presidential nominating convention - Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Act - Warren B. Rudman - D.C. Statehood - Political campaign - fandango (movies) - Dorothy Bush - Jack Ryan (Senate candidate) - Barack Obama - Donatello (Ninja Turtle) - Raphael (Ninja Turtle) - Michaelangelo (Ninja Turtle) - Leonardo (Ninja Turtle) - Casper the Friendly Ghost - Don Imus - Center for Strategic and International Studies - Jolyon Wagg - Metro Center - Foggy Bottom - Red Rackham's Treasure - Tenleytown-AU - The Secret of the Unicorn - Death tax - Billy Blanks - Clone High - sedan - Thomas E. Mann - Battle school - The Media Fund - fandango - William G. Gregory - Stephen Kinzer - Kent Hance - National library - Ben Gibbard - Reflecting Pool - reflecting pool - March for Womens' Lives - Ed Derwinski - The Simpsons Hit & Run - Muzz Skillings - Ninja in western fiction - Aiel - Doink the Clown - David Catania - Credibility gap - The History of the Standard Oil Company - Smarties - Richard Riordan - Chicago Blues Festival - Morgan Spurlock - The Black Cat (nightclub) - Phil Gingrey - Rick Crawford - Judy Baar Topinka - Judith Sheindlin - Greek-American - Eric Schlosser - American University - Daily Southtown - Jim Jordan - Mary Beth Cahill - Pat Toomey - Doomtown - Tax bracket - Gumball machine - NARAL Pro-Choice America - Corinne Boggs - Dan Glickman - Count (baseball) - Your mom - John Boone - Car donation - 2004 Democratic National Convention - Media conglomerate - United States Constitution - Pete Coors - Shotgun wedding - voter registration - voter registration drive - Andy Borowitz - 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall - Tom DeLay - Gasoline tax - New Democrat Network - Center for Public Integrity - Nick Clooney - Geoff Davis - Thomas L. Friedman - U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct - Albert White (U.S. Senator) - Stewart McKinney - Steve Symms - James A. McClure - Spree (candy) - Thomas M. Foglietta - Gun politics in the United States - Dan Miller (U.S. politician) - Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death - form letter - Sean Nelson - John Black (U.S. Senator) - A Tale of Two Sisters - John Kyle - Richard Trumka - Whisper campaign - Peter Barca - Guilty by Suspicion - Compton I. White, Jr. - Gracie Pfost - John Travers Wood - Compton I. White - Larry LaRocco - Connie Dover - Old Style Beer - Marketing in schools

[edit] Want to help?

Some of the pages I've worked on are things that I need help with. If you know anything about these subjects, please lend a hand. These are generally things I just don't know enough about to edit. If you can fix one up, mention it on my talk page? Pages I've worked on that need help (from someone who's not me):

• National Rifle Association needs a rewrite of the "NRA history" section. I have my doubts about neutrality of the current version.

• Richard Armitage has good biographical info, but the bio could use more detail and it has no facts on his current activities, policies, etc.

• Campaign finance reform needs more, I just don't know what.

• Counter-terrorism is an important topic that needs a good deal more info, and a rewrite

• Contract with America needs another perspective, more info.

More of these will be added, and fixed ones removed, as time goes on.

[edit] To do

• /random test

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, any and all talk pages, and any and all project pages, as described below:

[edit] Heinrich Hertz

Please consider re-visiting Talk:Heinrich Hertz#jewish ancestry. I'd be interested in your feedback about the suggested edit strategy I've proposed. --Ooperhoofd (talk) 15:44, 11 January 2008 (UTC)